Major Additions - Email Integration (New threads/replies by email)

This mod is based off of the Mail Reply modification by Colin F to which I have obtained permission to rewrite and release.

This modification allows you to mimic email lists such as yahoo groups through your forums!

After installing this modification you will have new settings in your forum manager where for each forum you can enable this modification and setup a separate email address to use for each forum that you have this enabled for.

Just like how there is a separate email address for each yahoo group.

After doing so, members can subscribe to each forum that this mod is enabled for to receive notifications for new threads and replies.

Any posts in that forum, will be sent to them via email. (Example email attached below). The users can then reply to that email (which will then be processed and posted to the forums through the cron job that runs every 10 minutes), or they can send a new email to the email address and a brand new thread will be created!

Essentially mimicing an email list! Suddenly those users that hate forums, can still be dragged into the conversations and help keep the forum's activity level up!


BUGS!
These are the known bugs to date:

• Confirmed bug that email processing does not handle Japanese characters.

Unsupported Items
These are the items that are not currently supported:

• Some custom bbcode modifications will not display like they do on the forums in the html emails. Like glow, and the table mod.

TO UPGRADE

• Please see the file in the zip for upgrading!! If your upgrading from version 2.3.X you will need to reverse some file edits that are no longer nessecary!

NEW INSTALL

• See instructions in the zip file.

VERSION HISTORY!
(See the file in the zip for a complete history!)

• 2.6 Release
  • Bug Fixes
    • Joining an unmoderated public group will now auto subscribe you per the usergroup settings.
    • NO CONFLICTS with Instant Thread Subscription! See details in below post.
  • New Stuff
    • User Option Allow Auto Subscribe - This is an admin allowable, user option that let's the user choose to not be auto subscribed.
    • User Option not receive own posts - A new user option that lets them select to NOT receive their own posts via email.
    • Editted the phrase for the Auto Subscription script to tell people what to do if there are no listings.
    • Added error checks when saving a usergroup for if auto subscriptioin is entered with a forumid for a forum that does not have email integration enabled and also checks that the usergroup you are saing is entered in the forum manager as allowed to use email integration.
• 2.6.1 Release (BETA VERSION)
  • Hot Fix
    • It appears I was unseting a variable too soon. I've corrected this and it has resolved the issue with multiple posted replies on my test server.

Most of these will be slow to make it in til I know I've got the code to handle just about every type of email we could receive But in anycase, here are the ideas for future versions!

• End User Option to subscribe to just receive new thread emails, or receive all new thread & reply emails (current version does all new threads & replies).

Thanks to RedTyger, Bob Denny, Ed Kohwley and Chris McKeever for their additions and assistance with portions of this code.

Huge thanks also goes to the many individuals that have helped test various incarnations of this mod.

MAD PROPS TO: cgmckeever for a great quoting regex for the old format, and all the mods at www.4winmobile.com for helping test version 2.4 prior to release!!

You guys rock!

Please feel free to donate to my continued work on this modification!! It let's me spend more time on it!
Make a Donation!

Version 2.6 will work with both 3.6.8 and 3.7!

The #.X versions are the solid tested versions.

The #.X.X versions are the beta versions. New features and bug fixes will be worked in there and then when I have a solid version it'll be released as the next #.X

Thank you!!

~ Cyricx

[mashby]

I'm probably just missing something, but where do you edit the "Rejection Template"? I want to change what the bounce back e-mail says to someone who's not authorized to send an e-mail and I can't seem to find where that is.

Thanks!

[RWerksman]

Originally Posted by mashby

I'm probably just missing something, but where do you edit the "Rejection Template"? I want to change what the bounce back e-mail says to someone who's not authorized to send an e-mail and I can't seem to find where that is.

Thanks!

Look in phrases - there is no template per se, it's all done there.

[Dontom]

Hello Cyricx
just installed it and it works like a charm. Thanks for this thing. Only thumbs for attached images are not getting generated yet, but I guess you already knew that

Thanks again
Thomas

[SpreadingLight]

How about using input boxes in the email- that seems like it would encourage replies and new posts even more.

I got this email from amazon, usually they're only text, and I notice how the boxes gave me more motivation to reply:

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by attilio

I've just updated to version 2.5.2 and am still getting the 908 error message when trying to validate pending messages in the admin area: forum/includes/functions_newpost.php on line 908

Working with Attilio to determine what's going on. I suspect it's something being missed in upgrading.

Originally Posted by Dontom

Hello Cyricx
just installed it and it works like a charm. Thanks for this thing. Only thumbs for attached images are not getting generated yet, but I guess you already knew that

Thanks again
Thomas

Yep aware of this one. Still trying to decode how it builds thumbnails

Originally Posted by SpreadingLight

How about using input boxes in the email- that seems like it would encourage replies and new posts even more.

I got this email from amazon, usually they're only text, and I notice how the boxes gave me more motivation to reply:

Interesting idea and something that could be considered for the html formatted emails.
I'll look into this for future versions to determine how feasible it is.

Thanks!





Sorry for my slow replies all... it appears that the geforce 7100 motherboard and windows xp don't like each other a whole lot so battling getting my home pc running

[Dontom]

One more thing,
if someone adds image code to his email it is not getting displayed correct.

e.g. contained in the email (minus spaces):

[img ]http://www.mtb-news.de/forum/images/ibc/ibclogo_ececec.gif[/img ]

in a forumpost it looks like:

[img ][URL='http://www.mtb-news.de/forum/images/ibc/ibclogo_ececec.gif[/img ]']http://www.mtb-news.de/forum/images/ibc/ibclogo_ececec.gif[/img ][/URL ]

Any advice?

[snoopy5]

Hi

I am a little bit confused. Where is the difference between this script above and this one?:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...=169247&page=2


I am very interested in this hack. I only need a slight modification. I would be willing to pay for this.

I need this mailinglist functionality depending on the usergroup. I do not want that every user can use this feature, only premium members and Moderators shall be allowed to use this feature.

Would that be possible?

Thanks in advance

[yotsume]

Now all this hack needs is a simple way for the admin to be able to subscribe groups of users to a specific forum or thread they want to from the admin panel.

This is almost a great hack just one very important key feature missing still! Besides users being able to subscribe... admins need to be able to do this as well from their end!

PLEASE ADD THIS ASAP!

Any chance this hack will work on vb3.6.4?

[abrecher]

By default it seems that users are subscribed via text email instead of HTML. How can I change that without forcing all of them to use HTML ?

[snoopy5]

Originally Posted by snoopy5

I am very interested in this hack. I only need a slight modification. I would be willing to pay for this.

I need this mailinglist functionality depending on the usergroup. I do not want that every user can use this feature, only premium members and Moderators shall be allowed to use this feature.

Would that be possible?

Thanks in advance

Anybody?

Since this is IMHO a very important point, it would help if you state this clearly in the overview text of this Mod at the top of the page. Whether this can be setted in ACP by usergroup or not.

There are 47 pages now with comments about this hack. It does nnot malke sense to read all through that, without knowing whether there will be an answer to it.

There is another mod, that can handle this by usergrpup, although it does not have the reply by e-mail ability. But at least there you get the information, that you can decide to offer this feature by usergroup:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...38#post1432538

so can anybody make a statement about this for this hack here please?